"The John Lennon Collection The John Lennon Collection is a posthumous compilation album of music from John Lennon's solo career. The album was originally scheduled for release in late 1981, but was held back a year due to sort out the legalities owing to the fact that half the songs on the album were licensed to EMI and the other half, songs from ""Double Fantasy"", were licensed to Geffen. It was eventually released on 1 November 1982 by Parlophone in the United Kingdom, and on 8 November by Geffen in the United States. It was the first Lennon album to"
"except where noted. The John Lennon Collection The John Lennon Collection is a posthumous compilation album of music from John Lennon's solo career. The album was originally scheduled for release in late 1981, but was held back a year due to sort out the legalities owing to the fact that half the songs on the album were licensed to EMI and the other half, songs from ""Double Fantasy"", were licensed to Geffen. It was eventually released on 1 November 1982 by Parlophone in the United Kingdom, and on 8 November by Geffen in the United States. It was the first"
"recordings of Dr. John made at the Hit Factory are of indeterminate status, presumed in the Crown Casino or Nexxt Productions intellectual property vault After the death of John Lennon, on December 8, 1980, public awareness of The Hit Factory increased; Lennon's final album had been recorded at Hit Factory's Times Square studio at 353 West 48th Street. Mourners and music fans around the world read accounts of the murder in newspapers on the days following the shooting, and the Hit Factory was mentioned in some of these publications. However, there are contradictory reports as to whether he was recording"
"recent review, for AllMusic, critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine writes that ""confusion … lies at the heart of the album. Lennon doesn't know which way to go, so he tries everything."" Erlewine adds: ""While the best numbers are among Lennon's finest, there's only a handful of them, and the remainder of the record is simply pleasant."" The album was reissued in the US on Capitol Records in 1978 and 1980, with the latter being a budget reissue. In the UK, the album was reissued on EMI's budget label, Music for Pleasure (MFP), on 28 November 1980, featuring a different album cover."
"last, though Harrison said ""it felt as if we were reaching the end of the line"". After the album was released, the ""Get Back""/""Let It Be"" project was re-examined, and work on it continued into 1970. Therefore, ""Let It Be"" became the last album to be finished by the Beatles, even though its recording had begun before ""Abbey Road"". By September 1969, after the recording of ""Abbey Road"", Lennon had formed a new group, the Plastic Ono Band, in part because the Beatles had rejected his song ""Cold Turkey"". While Harrison worked with such artists as Leon Russell, Doris Troy,"
"""Double Fantasy"" seems an impressive feat for a new label, but at the time Lennon stated that Geffen was the only one with enough confidence in him to agree to a deal without hearing the record first. Yoko Ono, Lennon's wife and partner, stated that Geffen was the only label head to pay attention to her. In December 1980, Lennon was murdered and ""Double Fantasy"" became a massive seller. Over the years Geffen Records/DGC has become well known as a label, releasing works by the likes of Olivia Newton-John, Asia with Steve Howe and John Wetton, Elton John, Cher, Sonic"
"Lennon (box set) Lennon is a four-CD box set compilation, featuring highlights from the solo musical career of John Lennon. It was released in 1990 and is not to be confused with the 2015 box set of the same name, which comprised Lennon's eight original studio albums on vinyl LPs. Compiled by Beatles historian Mark Lewisohn, ""Lennon"" includes his entire 1970 debut album ""Plastic Ono Band"", selected tracks from his albums from ""Live Peace in Toronto 1969"" through ""Menlove Ave."", several non-album singles, live performances and other rarities. ""Lennon"" never charted in the United Kingdom or United States and was"
"deleted from Lennon's catalogue in the late 1990s. Lennon (box set) Lennon is a four-CD box set compilation, featuring highlights from the solo musical career of John Lennon. It was released in 1990 and is not to be confused with the 2015 box set of the same name, which comprised Lennon's eight original studio albums on vinyl LPs. Compiled by Beatles historian Mark Lewisohn, ""Lennon"" includes his entire 1970 debut album ""Plastic Ono Band"", selected tracks from his albums from ""Live Peace in Toronto 1969"" through ""Menlove Ave."", several non-album singles, live performances and other rarities. ""Lennon"" never charted in"
"hear in John's voice are the other roots of the boy who grew up in Liverpool, listening to ""Greensleeves"", BBC Radio and Tessie O'Shea."" The artwork for the release was effected by artist Andy Warhol, just months before Lennon's death in 1980. It was later used as a cover for 2005 compilation album """". Though ""Menlove Ave."" included previously unreleased material of John Lennon, it failed to chart in the United Kingdom. It did manage to reach number 127 in the United States, making it Lennon's least-successful album. ""Menlove Ave."" was issued on CD in 1987, and remains available from"
"Shaved Fish Shaved Fish is a compilation album by John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band, issued in October 1975 on Apple Records. It contains all of the singles that he had issued up to that point in the United States as a solo artist, with the exception of ""Stand by Me"", which had been released earlier that year. The only compilation of Lennon's non-Beatles recordings released during his lifetime, the album peaked at number 8 in the UK and number 12 in the US. It was also Lennon's final album released on Apple Records. This compilation includes many of"
"by mail order. The album was distributed by Track Records in the UK and Tetragrammaton Records in the US after EMI refused to produce the cover or sleeve the record, unless it was changed. EMI, however, pressed the record in Britain, while the album cover was printed by Technik. Apple employee Jack Oliver got around the sleeve packing problem by hiring several Apple scruffs to package the album into sleeves ""in the basement of the old Apple shop"". It took Lennon six months to persuade his fellow band members to agree to the release of the album, and despite not"
"John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band is the debut solo album by English musician John Lennon. It was released in 1970, after Lennon had issued three experimental albums with Yoko Ono and ""Live Peace in Toronto 1969"", a live performance in Toronto credited to the Plastic Ono Band. The album was recorded simultaneously with Ono's debut avant-garde solo album, ""Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band"", at Ascot Sound Studios and Abbey Road Studios using the same musicians and production team and nearly identical cover artwork. ""John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band"" is generally considered one of Lennon's finest solo albums, documenting with"
"Lennon–McCartney Lennon–McCartney (sometimes McCartney–Lennon) was the songwriting partnership between English musicians John Lennon (9 October 19408 December 1980) and Paul McCartney (born 18 June 1942) of the Beatles. It is one of the best known and most successful musical collaborations in history, with the Beatles selling over 600 million records, tapes and CDs as of 2004. Between 5 October 1962 and 8 May 1970, the partnership published approximately 180 jointly credited songs, of which the vast majority were recorded by the Beatles, forming the bulk of their catalogue. Unlike many songwriting partnerships that comprise separate lyricist and composer, both Lennon"
"co-founder, Marvin Deane, died of heart failure on August 16, 2010, in Los Angeles, California. Tetragrammaton Records Tetragrammaton Records was an American record label founded in 1968 by music industry executives Roy Silver, Bruce Post Campbell, Marvin Deane, and comedian Bill Cosby. Silver, at the time, was also Cosby's manager. The term ""Tetragrammaton"" refers to the unspeakable Hebrew name of God. The label's most successful act was the rock band Deep Purple. Tetragrammaton was also responsible for releasing the controversial 1968 Apple Records album, """" in the United States. This avant-garde album was recorded by John Lennon and Yoko Ono"
"John Lennon Anthology John Lennon Anthology is a four-CD box set of home demos, alternative studio outtakes and other unreleased material recorded by John Lennon over the course of his solo career from ""Give Peace a Chance"" in 1969 up until the 1980 sessions for ""Double Fantasy"" and ""Milk and Honey"". The anthology was divided by its compiler and co-producer, Yoko Ono, into four discs representing four eras in Lennon's solo career: ""Ascot"", ""New York City"", ""The Lost Weekend"" and ""Dakota"". ""John Lennon Anthology"" reached number 62 in the United Kingdom and number 99 in the United States, where it"
"with a new release until 1980. ""Stand by Me"" was reissued in the US, with ""Woman Is the Nigger of the World"", on 4 April 1977. The album re-charted in the UK on 17 January 1981, at number 64. In the US, it was reissued in October 1980, also at budget price, and it was briefly reissued in the UK by the budget label Music for Pleasure with an alternative cover on 25 November 1981. After Lennon's death, the album, along with seven other Lennon albums, was reissued by EMI as part of a box set, which was released in"
"Lennon Legend: The Very Best of John Lennon Lennon Legend: The Very Best of John Lennon is the third official compilation album of John Lennon's solo career, coming after 1975's ""Shaved Fish"" and 1982's ""The John Lennon Collection"". Because neither collection spanned Lennon's releases up to and including 1984's ""Milk and Honey"", ""Lennon Legend: The Very Best of John Lennon"" – considered the definitive Lennon retrospective – was compiled to rectify the situation. It was released in the UK in 1997 through Parlophone and early 1998 in the US by EMI Records. ""Lennon Legend: The Very Best of John Lennon"""
"the album. On 9 October 2000, EMI/Capitol released a remastered version of the album, containing three bonus tracks. In 2010, a two-CD set called ""Double Fantasy Stripped Down"" was released. It included a newly remastered copy of the original album along with an alternative version of the album featuring simpler arrangements, with cover artwork by Sean Lennon. Double Fantasy Double Fantasy is a 1980 album released by John Lennon and Yoko Ono. It is the seventh and final studio album released by Lennon during his lifetime. The album was initially poorly received. However, following Lennon's murder three weeks after its"
"Double Fantasy Double Fantasy is a 1980 album released by John Lennon and Yoko Ono. It is the seventh and final studio album released by Lennon during his lifetime. The album was initially poorly received. However, following Lennon's murder three weeks after its release, it became a worldwide commercial success and went on to win the 1981 Album of the Year award at the 24th Annual Grammy Awards. Following the birth of his son Sean in 1975, Lennon had put his career on hold to help raise him. After five years of little musical activity aside from recording the occasional"
"insisting Lennon release it according to his recording contract and turn Levy's proposal down. Feeling betrayed, Levy pressed an album from the rough tape Lennon had provided, then proceeded to sue Lennon, EMI and Capitol for $42 million for breach of contract. Lennon and Capitol/EMI countersued. Lennon finished work on his version of the album, omitting two songs from the final selection. In February 1975, Capitol Records rush-released the ""official"" ""Rock 'n' Roll"", and Lennon also reconciled with Yoko Ono. In February 1976, the case was heard in New York District Court. Lennon (sporting a crewcut) and Ono attended the"
"was no label lined up for the manufacturing and distribution for the record. Baltazar 'shopped' it to several companies, one of them being Herb Alpert at A&M Records; Alpert said ""we don't do big band records anymore --- they do not sell."" He eventually brought the recording to Stan Kenton at his office at Creative World Records in Los Angeles. Kenton was very happy with the product, ""I'd be glad to endorse it."" This would be the last of any albums the Creative World label would produce and also the last of the ""Kenton presents..."" series that had been started"
"the single ""Imagine"", backed with ""Working Class Hero"", charting at number 6. The single was also Lennon's last for Apple Records. The album later re-charted in the UK on 17 January 1981, at number 11. After the release of the album, Lennon's recording contract expired, in February 1976; Lennon was uninterested in re-signing with EMI/Capitol. All songs by John Lennon, except where noted. Footnotes Citations Shaved Fish Shaved Fish is a compilation album by John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band, issued in October 1975 on Apple Records. It contains all of the singles that he had issued up to"
"Lennon for performance purposes. Ono's attorneys notified the Trademark office that Ono did not believe it was fair that Murphy be granted the exclusive right to the ""Lennon"" trademark in relation to musical and entertainment services. On September 23, 2008, after months of legal battle, Yoko Ono lost to Lennon Murphy after the United States Trademark Board dismissed Ono's petition. Lennon Murphy Lennon Anne Murphy (born March 31, 1982) is an American singer-songwriter and record producer. Murphy, who is named after musician John Lennon, was born in Ronkonkoma, New York. When she was four years old, Murphy and her mother"
"he used the name John Ono Lennon thereafter, official documents referred to him as John Winston Ono Lennon, since he was not permitted to revoke a name given at birth. The couple settled at Tittenhurst Park at Sunninghill, Berkshire, in southeast England. When Ono was injured in a car accident, Lennon arranged for a king-sized bed to be brought to the recording studio as he worked on the Beatles' last recorded album, ""Abbey Road"". The two artists collaborated on many albums, beginning in 1968 when Lennon was still a Beatle, with """", an album of experimental musique concrète. The same"
"face label carried the words ""PLAY LOUD"", in both the UK and America. Reflecting the tender sound of ""Who Has Seen the Wind?"", the B-side label read ""PLAY QUIET"" (or ""PLAY SOFT"" in the US). The front of the US picture sleeve featured a black-and-white photo of Lennon along with a prominent producer's credit for Spector, while the reverse had a similar picture of Ono. Following a year of highly publicised peace campaigning by the Lennons in 1969, Apple press officer Derek Taylor was concerned that they had exhausted the media's interest in their causes. On 4 February 1970, Lennon"
"be issued following his death in 1980. The album includes most of Lennon's hit singles and other tracks from his solo albums recorded with EMI from 1970–75, as well as all but one of his tracks from his final album ""Double Fantasy"", which was initially distributed by Geffen Records in America and EMI/Parlophone in the United Kingdom. The EMI selections on the album are similar to those on ""Shaved Fish"", Lennon's 1975 compilation album, but without the singles ""Cold Turkey"", ""Mother"" and ""Woman Is the Nigger of the World."" These were substituted with the 1975 hit single ""Stand by Me"""
"Live in New York City (John Lennon album) Live in New York City is a posthumous live album by English rock musician John Lennon with the Plastic Ono Elephant's Memory Band. It was prepared under the supervision of his widow, Yoko Ono, and released in 1986 as his second official live album, the first being ""Live Peace in Toronto 1969"". Recorded on 30 August 1972 at Madison Square Garden in New York City, Lennon performed two shows, one in the afternoon and one in the evening, a benefit concert for the Willowbrook State School for Retarded Children in New York,"
"call the next album Milk and Honey."" The cover is an alternative take from the same photo session that produced the front cover of ""Double Fantasy"", though this time it appears in color. After a falling out with David Geffen, whose Geffen Records had initially released ""Double Fantasy"", Ono moved future projects to Polydor Records, which initially released ""Milk and Honey"". EMI, home of Lennon's entire recorded output—including that with the Beatles—acquired this and all Lennon releases in the late 1990s. Predictably, the reaction to ""Milk and Honey"" was less fanatical than the one that greeted ""Double Fantasy"", but it"
"After Lennon's death in December 1980, the album, along with seven other Lennon albums, was reissued by EMI as part of a box set, which was released in the UK on 15 June 1981. It was first issued on CD on 3 August 1987, this time on the Parlophone label, and several months later on 22 March 1988 in the US on the Capitol label. In 2002, a remixing of ""Mind Games"" for its remastered reissue, containing three previously unreleased demo recordings, was overseen by Allan Rouse, which was released on 21 October 2002 in the UK, and almost a"
"Radio 1's ""Scene and Heard"". Interspersed among the interview excerpts are instrumental performances of Beatles songs, played by other musicians. The Beatles tried to prevent the album's publication, but it was released in the United Kingdom on 30 July 1976 under the Polydor label (catalogue number 2683 068) and in the United States in 1978. Major topics in John Lennon's interview include his relationship with Yoko Ono, his peace activism, The Beatles' business affairs (a portion of his statement about Brian Epstein's management is on ""Anthology 1""), the nature of God, and the band's break-up and whether they would reunite"
"Ringo's Rotogravure Ringo's Rotogravure is the fifth studio album by Ringo Starr, released in 1976. It would turn out to be the last album featuring active involvement from all four former Beatles before John Lennon's death in 1980. Following the end of his contract with EMI, Starr signed on with Polydor Records worldwide (Atlantic Records handling US distribution). It was reported in December 1975 that ABC Records in the US was to sign former Beatle Ringo Starr for a 5-year recording contract, worth $5 million. However, on 26 January 1976, when Starr's recording contract with EMI ended, he signed with"
"This posthumous release, recorded during December 1977 and January 1978, was produced by Rosenthal. Last Sessions (Lenny Breau album) Last Sessions is an album by American-born jazz guitarist Lenny Breau, recorded in 1977-78 and released posthumously in 1987. This album represents Breau's final studio recordings for Adelphi Records, not his last studio sessions which were recorded in 1982 at Audio Media Studios in Nashville, Tennessee (released as ""When Lightn' Strikes""). After signing a three-album deal with Gene Rosenthal for Adelphi Records in 1977, Breau recorded material over period of a few months. Rosenthal and Dan Doyle produced the first sessions"
"Recorded at Cherokee Studios in Los Angeles, California, USA. Flash Harry (album) Flash Harry is the sixteenth studio album by Harry Nilsson. Originally the album was not given a worldwide release and was only issued in the U.K., Japan, Germany, France, Spain, The Netherlands, Australia, and Scandinavia. It was not issued in the United States until August 2013. Upon release it received little promotion from Mercury, with no proper single from the album. The album features Nilsson's own recording of ""Old Dirt Road"", co-written and performed with John Lennon on Lennon's album ""Walls and Bridges"" (1974), Lennon's last album of"